I use an in-house bootstrap script that: - launch an ec2 instance - sets the hostname - add to route53 - install puppet - run puppet agent --server my-puppetmaster
My puppetmaster only accepts requests from ec2 instances from my aws account and auto sign the certificate, also installs puppet.conf and all the packages needed based in the hostname regex of the nodes already defined in my nodes.pp. ./bootstrap.rb --name web1.mydomain --type m1.small ...etc And in 10 minutes I have a fully deployed server with the right hostname, dns, security group and onboarded on puppet. btw: I tried to use Puppet Cloud Provisioner but it really didn't do the job I needed, like it should be really easy for it to correct the hostname, but it doesn't, also fails if you use auto sign, and a lot of open issues and pull requests :( Felipe On Friday, March 8, 2013 10:41:04 PM UTC-8, sylvainkalache wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm looking for the best way to integrate Puppet with EC2, I read > posts on that group but they are all old, I wanted to know if things > have changed since then. > > So far here are the possibilities I found to tight EC2 with Puppet: > > -Use the instance name as reference like <instance_id>-<puppetclass>- > <environment> - http://bit.ly/YitdC3 > -Use <http://bit.ly/YitdC3-Use> the instance security group as reference > - http://bit.ly/YitdC3 > -Use <http://bit.ly/YitdC3-Use> the user-data, populate with JSON and > parse on the puppet master > side - http://bit.ly/13MsfGe > -Use <http://bit.ly/13MsfGe-Use> the user-data, but parse on client side > with facter - http://bit.ly/XZlVXD > > I don't like to use the name or security as reference at these data > has not been designed for this. > I don't like user-data because you can't change them after the > instance is launched. > > Finally I found all the approach kind of dirty for something which is > widely used. Are they other possibilities? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
